Janet Alcoriza

Janet Alcoriza

Nascimento : 1918-01-04, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Morte : 1998-11-12

Perfil

Janet Alcoriza

Filmes

Living Is What Matters
Writer
A drifter named Candelario asks to spend the night at the hacienda of Don Lazaro. Once there, he gets the offer to stay and work as a laborer with a fixed salary. Over time, Candelario is gaining the confidence of his employer, and becomes indispensable. The situation will change radically when Don Lazarus discovers that Candelario is having a love affair with his wife.
Departamento De Soltero
Story
Newlywed couple are jealous of each other's imagined infidelities.
Como perros y gatos
Adaptation
Teen romance comedy.
Romeo contra Julieta
Story
Tirando a gol
Adaptation
Blended family comedy/drama -- the narrative hook is that the two original families are fans of opposing soccer teams.
The Gangster
Story
An old gangster returns from the United States to Mexico City to live with his sister-in-law and his two nephews, where he will face the daily life of a middle-class family.
Perdóname mi vida
Screenstory
Tlayucan
Turista (uncredited)
Desesperado pela doença do filho, o camponês Eufemio rouba uma pérola da imagem de Santa Lucía na igreja do povoado. Alguns turistas testemunham e fotografam o roubo e Eufemio fica a ponto de ser linchado por seus vizinhos.
O Anjo Exterminador
(uncredited)
Após uma extravagante e farta refeição, os convidados de uma festa de alta classe se sentem estranhamente incapazes de deixar a sala de jantar e, nos dias que se seguem, pouco a pouco, caem as máscaras de civilização e virtude e o grupo passa a viver como animais.
Our Daily Hunger
Writer
Trophy wife of a crooked industrialist meets a philanthropic doctor and develops a social conscience. Mexican remake of Born Yesterday.
The Innocent
Story
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
La vida no vale nada
Screenplay
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Ensaio de um Crime
American tourist (uncredited)
A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes according to plan...
Gitana tenías que ser
Story
Pastora de los Reyes is a beautiful Spanish that goes to Mexico with a contract to film a movie. The main actors will receive her at the airport, among them is Paul, a little-known mariachi that has been chosen to become a new idol. Automatically, both had bad relations and during filming many discussions happens. This arguments gives way to a deep love.
La miel se fue de la luna
Writer
Dr. Pablo, something womanizer, going to marry with Mini and cheats África, singer and his lover, telling her to wait while she is on tour in Cuba. With her, he poses as a friend industrial, Ricardo and his intention is not to see her again. While Africa is out he marries Mini, which proves to be terribly jealous. Complications ensue when Africa returns to Mexico and start searching for the fake Richard. By chance a friend of Mini will be in a beauty salon and this ensures she can take to "Ricardo" because is "a friend of her husband". A typical sitcom with a blistering pace.
Canasta Uruguaya
Writer
Screwball comedy about country girl who inherits a fortune.
Engagement ring
Screenplay
Newlyweds struggle with career issues and poverty.
A Filha do Engano
Adaptation
In the drama, a father, firmly believing that the baby daughter in his arms is not his own, abandons her upon the doorstep of the town drunk. Many years pass, and the man finds himself continually wracked with guilt about deserting her.
Uma Aventura no México
Screenplay
A USA girl decides to vacation in Mexico and experience first hand all the stereotypical scenes she's seen in movies. When she gets there, everything isn't all charros and bandidos, though -- surprise, surprise!
El Siete Machos
Story
Para conquistar Rosário, Margarito finge ser o famoso fora da lei "Siete Machos", assim chamado porque "ele possui a coragem de sete machos".
The League of Girls
Story
Two women form The League of Girls invite an interesting repertoire of young ladies to become members and get rid of men and all the evils that come with them.
The Great Madcap
Screenplay
Buñuel's first "comeback" film since "L'Age d'Or" in 1930 (he made only a few musicals in the interim), "El Gran Calavera" concerns a family's attempts to change the patriarch's somewhat indulgent and hedonistic ways by fooling him into thinking his large fortune is gone. They assume a life of poverty in Mexico in an attempt to teach him a lesson. However, he discovers it's a ruse, but continues to perpetuate the facade of ignorance while sneaking off during the day to conduct his thriving business. Why? To teach his family a lesson - they are all lazy, worthless leeches!
Nocturno de amor
Screenplay
Venice Film Festival 1948
El ahijado de la muerte
Screenplay
Father of a newborn makes a deal with Death to protect his son.
Tormenta en la cumbre
Young couple weather a marital crisis while older people who have already given up on life interfere from the sidelines.
Soy puro mexicano
Band of outlaws stumble across an espionage ring of Axis agents embedded in an out-of-the-way hacienda.
The Three Musketeers
Mimí / Milady (as Raquel Rojas)
Cantinflas and three friends return a stolen necklace to an actress who invites them to be extras at Clasa studios. While on the set, he falls asleep and dreams that he is d'Artagnan, fighting on behalf of Queen Anne.
Cuando viajan las estrellas
Café Concordia
During the early XX Century, a lovely woman dancer has an amazing success in a place called "Cafe Concordia". She is courting by many men, buts he is in love with Ernesto, a young man whose parents are against their relationship. Ernesto invites Raquel to a party at his home but she is snubbed by his mother and offended by a slighted pretender. Ernesto faces this man in a duel in which he is about to be killed by his rival, but Raquel protects his body and receives the bullet. She dies in Ernesto's arms.